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Australian woman wakes to find massive python on her chest
Once freed from the python, she began casually feeding it back out the way it came in.
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In the middle of the night on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed to find a heavy weight curled up on her chest.
Half asleep, she reached out for her dog – and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object.
As Bloor retreated further under the covers and pulled them up to her neck, her partner switched on the bedside lamp and confirmed the Brisbane couple’s fears.
“He goes, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There’s like a 2.5m python on you,” Bloor told the BBC.Her first words were expletives.
The second, an order to evacuate the dogs.
“I thought if my Dalmatian realises that there’s a snake there… it’s gonna be carnage.”
The dogs secured outside the room – and her husband wishing he was with them – Bloor began carefully extricating herself.
“I was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers… in my mind, going, ‘Is this really happening? This is so bizarre’.
“She believes the carpet python – which is non-venomous – had squeezed itself through the shutters on her window onto her bed below.
Once freed from the python, she began casually feeding it back out the way it came in.
“It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter.”
“I grabbed him, [and] even then he didn’t seem overly freaked out. He sort of just wobbled in my hand.”
It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter.”
“I grabbed him, [and] even then he didn’t seem overly freaked out.
He sort of just wobbled in my hand.”The same couldn’t be said for her stunned husband, but Bloor herself was barely fazed, having grown up on acreage around snakes.”I think if you’re calm, they’re calm.”
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FG hails Elias’ election to UN International Law Commission
Elias emerged successful in a competitive election conducted to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Kenya’s representative, Professor Phoebe Okowa. Candidates from Ghana and Botswana also contested the seat.
The Federal Government has hailed the election of Nigerian international legal expert, Taoheed Elias, into the United Nations International Law Commission during the commission’s 77th session held in Geneva.
Elias emerged successful in a competitive election conducted to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Kenya’s representative, Professor Phoebe Okowa. Candidates from Ghana and Botswana also contested the seat.
In a statement issued on Thursday by the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, the government described the election as a recognition of Nigeria’s contributions to the development of international law and multilateral diplomacy.
The government said Elias brings decades of experience in international legal affairs to the commission, having previously served as Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals with the rank of United Nations Assistant Secretary-General.
CNN’s founder Ted Turner / AFP
Ted Turner, the flamboyant US entrepreneur who transformed television news with the creation of CNN in 1980, has died at the age of 87, the network said Wednesday.
The mustached southerner, yachting enthusiast and philanthropist, whose empire also included sports clubs, had been suffering from the degenerative disease Lewy Body Dementia.
Cable News Network upended established broadcasting with its dedication to around-the-clock breaking news and shot to global recognition with its coverage of the Gulf War in 1990-91.
The 24-hour network was the first in the United States to run non-stop news and quickly built a worldwide footprint.
Correspondents brought live coverage from major events ranging from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Chinese crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests.
CNN’s decision to keep reporters in Baghdad amid US bombing on the Iraqi capital cemented the network’s reputation as an indispensable source of breaking news.
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Explosion at China fireworks factory kills 21 people
Authorities deployed nearly 500 personnel to conduct search and rescue operations and treat the injured, while robots were used to help find those trapped within the building.
A blast at a fireworks factory in China’s Hunan province has killed 21 people and left 61 wounded, according to state media.
The explosion at the Huasheng Fireworks plant happened at around 16:40 local time (08:40 GMT) on Monday, in the city of Liuyang, leading rescuers to evacuate everyone within a 3km (1.9mi) radius of the plant.
Authorities deployed nearly 500 personnel to conduct search and rescue operations and treat the injured, while robots were used to help find those trapped within the building.
Police, who are investigating the cause of the blast, have taken “control measures” against the person in charge of the fireworks company, Chinese state media reported.
Authorities said that two gunpowder warehouses within the factory area posed a high risk amid rescue efforts, state media reported.
Rescue teams had to evacuate everyone within a 3km (1.9mi) radius of the fireworks plant.
They also implemented measures like humidifying the area to “prevent secondary accidents during the rescue”.
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